Watching the Cincy-Denver game very entertaining, must be frustrating being a Bengal fan this season. Which team shows up on Sunday,the Bengals or their doppelgangers, the bungles, this week is the former.

OK, so the Red Dawn commercial is on. I loved the first movie when I was a kid because, well, I was a kid.

But what on earth is the motivation for the Chinese to invade the Pacific Northwest? Is it some sort of repossession of the collateral behind the debt we owe to them? You would think they would still want to sell the cheap crap they send over here instead of having to deal with the piles of it we have.

Also, do they know that the Pacific Northwest is just filled with a bunch of DFH, Microsoft, and espresso drive ins?

@var: I heard that the villains were North Korea, because the Chinese scared the studio and the distribution company, telling them that the Chinese market will be closed to them if they did not change the plot. The movie I guess is nothing more wingnut wanking like that late lamented Atlas Shrugged II.

@var: My favorite invasion of America film was Chuck Norris’ “Invasion USA” when an army of stereotypes and bogeymen took over Florida by attacking churches and school buses. The whole gang was there. Russians, Cubans, Vietcong, Arabs.

I’m pissed at Tennessee for not benching Chris Johnson after his second fumble. I am playing against him this week and his garbage time points yielded bonanza for my opponent. Therefore, I’m rooting for Tennessee to lose every game from here to eternity.

@James E. Powell: And maybe a new coaching staff, but this is getting tired for a true Browns fan, we in year 48 since the Browns won an NFL title, and that was pre-Super Bowl years. I wouold like to see the Browns win the Super Bowl before I shuffle off this mortal coil or a meteor hits the planet.

Redskins losing. Should we Obamabots be worried per the streak that incumbents lose when Redskins lose?

Not an incumbent/challenger thing, but a Democrat/Republican thing, iirc. It was put to lie when the Redskins beat the Packers in ’04, which should have led to a Kerry victory. As a Packers fan, that was my silver lining after the 28-14 loss.

Oh my word. I cannot understand how you can make it North Koreans. Seriously, just junk the concept. North Korea has the population of Texas, most of whom are starving. And, to what end? To make more people worship at the image of Kim Il Sung?

@rlrr: Red Dawn Dud? No were as much fun to watch as Nazi’s from space! What’s not to like about something that is so over the top as moon nazi’s? North Koreans are real people being murdered by their own government, and the movie is a vehicle for rightwing thugs – can’t see the point of watching that stupid shit.

I knew I was getting older when the Browns and Raiders squared off in their only playoff game against each other (1980?).

The Browns were poised to win with a last second, chip shot field goal. To my pleasant surprise, I took the pending loss with true equanimity. No angst whatsoever. I thought: “Way to go, Raiders; never believed you’d get this far; it was a great season”.

But then Brian Sipes dropped back to pass. In that instant, I remember thinking: “WTF is he doing”? I then immediately assumed that, unless someone was wide open in the end zone, he’d throw it 20 rows deep into seats.

But Sipes didn’t, and the Raiders lived. Oakland went on to their second Super Bowl.

Just thought I’d share a pleasant memory with you on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

@JWL: I remember that, it was Red Right 88 called by Sam Rutigliano. Other sad memories The Drive(that is the reason any coach who does Prevent Defenses should be put against the wall in front of a belt fed machine gun), The Fumble(damn you Earnest Byner!!! Still after 25 years! The dark time when there was no Browns football. Being a Cleveland Browns fan involves pain. But I’ll be with them, I can’t cheer the Stilllers, Bungles, that team in B-more. Thank God for the Buckeyes or else I would go into treatment.

Hey, John Cole, I hate to be a nitpicker but your blogroll needs updating. Avedon has moved but you’re still linking to the old address. I think there are others that needed to be weeded out as well but I don’t remember which ones.

It was a gift from Arizona’s rotten run defense. They get after the QB, they’re pretty good in coverage, but the Cards cannot stop the run. The game was closer than it should have been- too fucking many dropped passes- but the ground game was where it should have been today.

Don’t expect the same numbers in the near future, though. Even if Benson makes it back this year, the Packers will only run to keep their opponents’ defenses honest.

Da Bears are back!!!! Of course, next week they have to play an actual NFL team. Hopefully that works out okay, but I don’t think they can count on getting 6 turnovers every week. Urlacher did a great service for old guys with no cartilage left in our knees.